Reading good quality texts at home will also help your child to develop their vocabulary as well as gaining ideas for their own writing. The most important aspect of reading is enjoyment. This website regularly updates its recommended texts for year 6 pupils and includes many excellent books which will interest your child.

Lastly, maths salamanders has several Year 6 sheets (which can be printed or just viewed online) with a variety of different questions covering a mixture of topics. There is a separate sheet with the answers. This is excellent for testing you child’s ability to switch between topics.

To help develop children’s fluency in mathematics, we ask them to learn Key Instant Recall Facts each half term.These lists of KIRFs have been created to align with the new curriculum. They are intended to be challenging and it is intended that children will be taught the necessary maths in lessons beforehand.